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Asked: 2026-05-27T17:16:05+00:00

I’m creating a dynamic web project in Eclipse where I frequently have write and

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I’m creating a dynamic web project in Eclipse where I frequently have write and read to and from an XML file. The file is in my project workspace in a folder called xml. I was wondering if Java provided some way to access the file without hard coding the file path. I’ve been looking around for a while for a solution but I haven’t really founding anything that’s really clear. Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can get the proper path using the following from your Servlet:

    String filename = getServletContext().getRealPath("/xml/config.xml");

    NOTE:

    getRealPath may return null if the file is inside a WAR file. In that case, if your file is in WEB_INF/classes, then you could use ServletContext.getResourceAsStream("/config.xml").

    See this link:

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